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by Tade0 11mo ago
> since you're feigning ignorance I'm actually not, as I don't follow celebrities (including in tech) and find giving what they say weight silly. I was more referring to him being generally controversial and that not being
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by Tade0 11mo ago
Over here LPG is the gas of choice and indeed taxi drivers regularly have that installed in their hybrids.
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by Tade0 11mo ago
> But most people aren't in that situation. Those who commute from the suburbs actually save even more as hybrids achieve their lowest consumption going a steady 50-70km/h. Of course the same people could just get an EV and cha
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by Tade0 11mo ago
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails. Everyone who knows that abbreviation seems to have a strong opinion on the guy for some reason.
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by Tade0 11mo ago
Getting to know the neighbours is what helped me in getting out, so perhaps it could help you as well. Among those with whom I established any contact there's a: -Doctor in training -Teacher -Small business owner doing house renovation
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by Tade0 11mo ago
It's really just people being terminally online, but with a thin veneer of professional growth. English speakers don't experience this, but in my language LinkedIn-speak has so many calques from English that, in order to understan
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by Tade0 11mo ago
There's definitely a transition associated with becoming a parent - that is well documented. When I think about my friends and friends of my relatives, what GP described appears to be the norm - also among the educated and in the upper
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by Tade0 11mo ago
But are they better than in, say, 2007?
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by Tade0 11mo ago
> Europe still is in a position, where it feasibly could control 100% of the semiconductor value chain on the continent. That's not possible. There are just too many different parts going into semiconductor production and they'
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by Tade0 11mo ago
What I meant to say is that not only is this labour completely unrecognised as contributing to the overall economy, it's essential labour, without which other, measurable work could not be performed. Bottom line is that the ways we mea
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by Tade0 11mo ago
My SO spent a few months collecting the neighbour's daughter along with our own from kindergarten and in exchange the neighbour would make dinner for us. This arrangement started because the neighbours' shifts didn't align wi
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by Tade0 11mo ago
This gives me hope that once I'm too old to drive, this tech will reach my, very distant from the US west coast, corner of the world. And if not Waymo and its car, then perhaps autonomous buses. There's already a shortage of bus d
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by Tade0 11mo ago
Or have bad habits like playing shovelware games on their phones.
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by Tade0 11mo ago
For those of you who, like me, have no graphical chops whatsoever, I can't recommend Liberated Pixel Cup assets enough: https://lpc.opengameart.org/ There's also a character generator with plenty of options to cho
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by Tade0 11mo ago
The first StarCraft was Blizzard North at its peak. I recall how difficult it was to win just sending all your troops towards the enemy, because every unit had a comparatively cheap counter. It was particularly visible in how, if you edited
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by Tade0 11mo ago
> A person who is immune to cult recruitment is a person who never feels isolation, desire, loneliness, grief, hope, fear of loss or lack of control, a person who never wants a hug or someone to talk to, who feels nothing at a smile from
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by Tade0 11mo ago
> It’s typically GDP per capita. If so, then the US is ~7th, or 5th among nations numbering in the millions. Still very high, just not at the top.
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by Tade0 11mo ago
I do, because in my corner of the world, before the advent of self-leveling headlights people would adjust them to whatever height they wanted.
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by Tade0 11mo ago
> The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. This framing by Forbes (any many others really) is insidious because it doesn't take into account the
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by Tade0 1y ago
> Afterwards they are divided between little geniuses going into „Gymnsasium“, average ones going to „Realschule“ and good-for-nothings going to „Mittelschule“. I would totally land in Realschule because I had an educational slump in fou
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by Tade0 1y ago
Poland's GDP per capita went from less than 20% that of the UK in 2005 to 38-48% currently depending on source. Those sausages have only become less affordable.
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by Tade0 1y ago
It appears that every short word means something obscene in some language. Advice would then be to avoid short names for products altogether.
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by Tade0 1y ago
> In the process all retained staff lost their options. For nothing in return? I don't know the first thing about startup operations, but that sounds deeply unfair.
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by Tade0 1y ago
To me the greater annoyance would be to have to wait until the device charges, should it lose power mid-game.
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by Tade0 1y ago
Average speed camera. "Section control" is how they were named in Austria where I've first encountered them and the term translates to something similar in my language, so I assumed that was the English term, but it appears t
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by Tade0 1y ago
There are 1.5V AA li-ion batteries on the market. I bought a few to power children's toys and they have comparable capacity to alkaline batteries. At high currents they actually perform better. Cost is about 10x that of their non-recha
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by Tade0 1y ago
In my corner of the world it was the workers who demanded section control limiting speed to 70kmph in a segment of highway that was being renovated. Authorities later said that they only went after 30% of the worst offenders, because otherw
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by Tade0 1y ago
> It comes to personal risk appetite, and risk benefit analysis. What analysis when you don't even have a good estimate of the probabilities involved? Min-maxing on the other hand is a recipe for extinction as a species, so not a vi
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by Tade0 1y ago
But you're not actually having this wife and children if they're AI - they're an illusion, a simulation that only superficially resembles the real thing. It's a poor substitute and you out of all people should know that.
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by Tade0 1y ago
That is: 1. Not a given. 2. Something one can work on so that they're either more likeable or at the very least less defeatist about the whole thing.

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